I think my lifetime female friend is in love with me.

[planb1973]

Like the title says. I am getting some sings that my lifetime female friend might have feelings for me more than friends.

 

I have known her my entire life, as in her mom used to babysit me when I was in diapers. We have a large group of friends that we grew up with. She is at all the big life events parties and what not. Really she is like family.

 

Last year she went through a divorce, and I just broke up with my GF a few weeks ago. Randomly a week before my GF and I broke up I had gotten a text from her saying "I love you... what are you doing... you should come over." I ignored it that night and teased her the next morning with a "how much did you drink last night" text.

 

Really I did not know how to take it. We do love each other, and tell each other, but I always assumed it was in a friend/family manner. But that message was different.

 

The day after my GF and I broke up I had called her to go get a beer because I needed a friend to talk to. We went out and had some dinner and then to her house where her "guy she is using for sex" joined us and we all had a great time talking about relationships, sex, kids, the things old friends talk about. But I noticed that she was blowing off her boy toy all night and putting her hand on my leg when she laughed at my jokes, which she has never done.

 

Since then we have been talking a bit more than normal discussing lots of intimate details about our past relationships, and all our conversations end in "I love you so much."

 

To get to the point. Since I was a teenager, I'm in my 40's, I have always hidden this secret crush I have had for her. And I am getting the feeling that her love for me goes beyond friendship. I even had another female friend, who has known her for a few years, say that she sees the way she has always looked at me and "yes she loves you."

 

I just don't know how to make a move on her. It feels so awkward. Like asking your sister out on a date.